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“SHOD FLY" MAY BE CAUSE OF DEFEAT V ! Defeated Flemming by Ridi cule and Now Must Take Dose of the Same Medicine By C. E. STEWART. Washington, April 9.—(Special.)—Billy Hardwick of Georgia, who is a candidate • for senator in the democratic primaries in that state, is in hard luck. The Bibli cal injunction that "He who lives by the sword, shall die by the. sword,” applies to Hardwick, accoriliitg to old timers here. f Mr. Hardwick, it is said, owes his elec tion to his first term in the House to a debate between Representative DeAr * mond of Missouri and Judge Flemming v of Georgia, then representing the district now’ represented by Hardwick, in which the Missouri congressman severely ridi culed Judge Flemming. Old timers de clare that no member of Congress ever liv£d who could hold their own with De Armond when it came to repartee and ridicule. He had an especially bitter and biting tongue and used it unsparingly upon his adversaries. Judge Flemming, unfortunately, aroused the Ire of DeArmond, and they had a set-to Hi the House and the Missourian * simply flayed the Georgian to a frazzle, and kept the House in ah uproar of laugh ter for over an hour. Hardwick#in the iiext election opposed Flemming and used DeArmond s speech of ridicule against ids opponent very effectively. \ “This is the man." he would say, "who is ridiculed and made the butt of the members of Congress.” Now, Hardwick i* to get a dose o$ n‘s * ovvp medicine. The other day in ilia speech on canal tolls. Champ Clark, re ' 1 erring to Bob Henry of Texas and Swaggar Shirly of Kentucky and others who had criticised the speaker about his position on canal tolls, was generous to them compared witii what he said 'of Hardwick. Hardwick, who himself has a bitter tongue, criticized the speaker very severely, and after Clark had dis pose of Shirly and Henry, he said: “Now so far as my friend from Georgia, Mister J lardwk-k is concerned, all I have to say about him. is "Shoo Fly, don’t bodder me. Shoo, fly, don’t bodder me.’ ” Georgians declare that Hardwick’s chances for the Senate were destroyed by that single comment of the speaker’s. Already Hardwick is getting letters ad dressed to S. Fly Hardwick, care of the House of Representatives, from his native slate. Q As able and alert as Hardwick is, they declare that lie cannot escape the power of ridicule, and that Clark’s shoo fly will stick to him all through his campaign, and that he will do well if it does n.,t defeat him. As his campaign against Judge Flem ming was based on just such grounds, it is pointed out that Hardwick is now only reaping what he has sown. TWO PLEAD GUILTY SMUGGLING CHARGE New’ York. April 9.—Hugo Grone, until i, recently second officer of n big German liner, and John Eyckman, a hotel pro prietor of Hoboken, N. J., pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging con spiracy to defraud the government by •i smuggling opium into the country. Koch was sentenced to serve one year and a d&v in tne federal penitent la r / at At lanta, Ga. ’* Yee Sang and Yee Joe, Chinese, who ^ Were indicted jointly with Grobe and $50 Reward Riley Jones disaimtured from his home, 315 N. 23rd street, Tuesday night at 10 o’clock. Age 48 years; weight 154 pounds; height 5 feet 7 inches: dark brown hair mixed with gray; brown eyes. Wore lace shoe No. 5, upper front teeth gold; wore black derby hat; suit dark gray mixture; had ladies' Elgin watch, 15 jewels, 20-year case; gold spectacles in coat. Reward will be paid by Mr. Mooney, cashier Traders National bank for information that will lead tc his whereabouts. INDIA TEA Men Like It and Compare It to Coffee; Only It’s Much * Cheaper 300 CUPS TO THE POUND ONE TEASPOONFUL MAKES TWO CUPS Published by the Growers of India Tea ---' - Large enough to give you adequate facilities and yet not too large to render you the intimate, personal service that you want in your bank. / \ * * * i Jefferson County Savings Eank Capital and Surplua ITWMKXf HeMourcfN Over 93*000,000 | American Girl Who Will Make Her Debut as an Actress in London I- — When "Potash and Ferlmutter” is produced in London in May the rdle of the stenographer, who has considerable to do in the first act, will be played by a young American girl, who then will make her d£but as an actress. She is Miss Julia Bruus. well known as a beauty and an artists' model. She lias posed for Mr. James Montgomery Flagg and others. .*... . I EIGHT GOVERNORS OF ALABAMA 1874—1901 No. 108—The Dismem bered Party of 1892 Thomas G. Jones, Governor I W’hUf* (luwriifiv Irtmw Mini Cii.lilii ill I V;i I > iltahtu miu-lit nt Kolb were canvassing the counties, personally and most eagerly presenting to full audiences the argument of tho respective functions of their common party, the Montgomery Advertiser of April 11. speaking for the governor’s cause, said: “Already every interest and every class has been seriously injured by the depression, tho loss of confi dence, the checking of enterprise and the other evils which have followed th • long contest waged on the lines of hut* and class dissensions.” Senator Morgan from his point of view thought the disruption of the party in Alabama by classes was to !»e attributed to the poverty of the producing element of the population: and that the poverty was the direct result from legislation of Congress pro motive of the interest of the class of ! investors of money and speculators in the exchanges. The senator from Alabama prepared a bill to be introduced by himself for the action of Congress in enactment of which into law he conteded that the minds of men would be relieved of that anxiety which defied the bonds of an cient political parties. The Morgan bill showed that the debt of the gov ernment exceeded two billion of dol lars, all made payable by act of Con gress in gold coin only. Besides this, .the private debts of the business com munity must be considered an enor mous amount. The owners of all prl gold. To meet these two classes ol debts payable In gold coin the supply of mat coin In the country was only about one-fourth of the volume of one class, the government debt. The Morgan bill alleged that In con sequence of the great disparity between the demand and the supply of gold coin tlie debtor class, with its property, was held in degrading and perilous subor dination t othe few who* were so for tunate as to have possession of the limited quantity of gold coin and who would sell it or loan it. The Morgan bill complained that the Secretary of the Treasury had discon tinued unlawfully the coinage of silver dollars. To increase the volume of money the bill required that all paper money, issued by the government, by full legal tender and that standard silver dollars and gold coin be full legal tender. Senator Pugh indorsed the bill and no representative In Congress from Alabama was heard to offer even a sug gestion of dissent. No democratic ed itor in the state dissented. Because of ex-President Cleveland's contention for the single gold standard and his open opposition to a full legal tender quality In the silver dollar and the government issue of paper currency the two Alabama senators opposed his nomination for the election of 1892. Governor Jones, the Montgomery Ad vertiser and the faction of the party led by them, ardently demanded the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. The purpose here is to show the more weighty difficulties through which the people of Alabama passed in their reform efforts to restore the state government, to a status of white supremacy. The peril of the situation lay in discord prt! division of the democratic party of the state. The whites and blacks were nearly evenly divided and the races were by now equalljr possessed of the electorate. The right to vote had not been won by the negro population and was not appre cited by the race. The right had been fcrced upon it as an instrumentality avail able to the foreign conqueror of the whites to perpetuate the conquest. If the democratic party split »n twain the rivalry of factions would inevitably introduce the use of this Ignorant and mercenary negro vole to the support of owe or both In the struggle for possession of the state gov ernment and therefore the split would of Itself eliminate the Issue of white su premacy. There was a temporary split of the party in 1892, followed bjf another in 1896. Tt may be said that Captain Kolb led the fjrmer and Governor Jones the latter. Brief time was sufficient in each rupture to restore unity of the factions and to ac complish white supremacy by the adop tion of the constitution of 1901. There were two state conventions of the divided party of 1874, assembled in Mont gomery in June 1892 and of these we shall relate the proceedings In the next num ber. JOHN WITHERSPOON DUBOSE. SELMA POSTOFFICE SHOWS AN INCREASE Receipts for the First Quarter Over Thousand Dollars More Than for the Same Period Last Year Selma. April 9.—(Special.)—The business of the Selma postoffice continues to grow as Is shown by the receipts of the office for the first quarter of the current year. The showing of the office during the past few years has been most gratifying to the officials and show that the business conditions of the city are most health ful. During the first quarter of 1913 the re ceipts of the local postoffice amounted to $12,618.36, while for the first quarter during the current year they aggregate $13. 783.65 or $1,165.29 more than last year. SAYS CALMETTE INTENDED TO PRINT CAILLAUX LETTER Paris. April 9.—At the inquiry before Magistrate Boucard today into the cir cumstances surrounding the killing of M. Calmette, editor of Figaro, by Mine. Cail laux, Gaston Vlday, a publicist, testified that one of Calmette's closes friends hud informed him that the editor Intended to publish two personal Jetters of M. Cail laux. M. Vidal was brought Into the case by Dr. Charles Sauvineau, at whose home he had dined a few days previous to the tragedy. Vidal told Dr. Sauvineau of Ai. Calmette's alleged Intention to publish the letters. Dr. Sauvineau was Interrogated by the magistrate, his testimony being confirm ed by Vidal. I 1 FORCED BY VILLA TO CARRY MESSAGE Rebel General Subjected the Former to Fire While Car rying Message to the Federal Chief B1 Paso, Tex.. April 9.—H. S. Qunard Cummln8, acting British vice consul at Home* Palaclo, was used by General Villa during the Torreon battle to carry a de mand to General Velasco on March 27 that the latter surrender. Accord!ug to newspaper correspondents who r* tched here from the front tonight, Mr. Cunard Cummtns performed the mission under protest and W’as subjected to rifl« fire* on his return toward tho rebel lines. George C. Carothers. special agent of the state department at the Wttle, in the report of the incident that he has made to Washington, however, does not indicate that Mr. Cunard«Cummins was coerced into becoming General Villa’s messenger, but states that he did so with some reluctance after first refusing. Mr. Carothers' report follows: “At 4 p. m. (March 27), General Villa sent a messenger to see Cummins, re questing him to go to headquarters. 1 and H. W. Potter accompanied him. When w’e arrived, aftor Introducing Cummins to Villa, Villa said to him that he knew’ that he, Cummins, was an enemy to the constitutionalists cause, that he had in formation that Cummins was accustomed to banqueting with the federals, that he knew he was a friend of General Velasco, and that in view of this friendship, with Velasco, ho wanted Cummins to take a communication to Velasco In which he demanded the surrender of the city to avoid further bloodshed. Refuses to Take Message “Villa said the message was couched In terms used in warfare in such case*. Cummins refused to take the message, arguing that he was neutral and should nbt mix In political affairs of the coun try. “At this Villa became very angry and said we foreigners were demanding that he protect foreigners and bo humanitarian in his acts, and that at the very first j opportunity given us to do some good j w?e refused. He commenced to talk about J probably having to fight dll of us, when | I interposed and advised Cummins to i go. “Villa said he first thought of sending j the message by me. hut cm second thought had decided on Cummins on ac count of his friendship with Velasco, as he would be In no danger. Cummins agreed to go, so T wrote some instruc tions to Mr. Ulmer. Cummins left about 5 o’clock and was to return about noon next day. Th$ Interview with Villa had a most serious aspect for a few’ moments, but as it tinned out, Villa and he * hook hands, called each other “amigos" and parted in the best of spirits." The Mr. Ulmer mentioned In tho le port is 1. M. Ulmer, United States con sular agent at Torreon. Amplified Report Mr. Carothers, questioned by a reporter here today, amplified his report to flu state department as follows: “Just before leaving Villa’s headquar ters, Villa called Cummins' ‘amigo.’ Cum- ' mins turned to Villa and said, ‘You call me friend?’ *4 *Yres, 1 call you friend, because I want you for my friend,4 responded Villa. “Villa’s last word to us was th.it ho left all arrangements about getting a\yuy to us. “I then walked toward Mr. O’Hoa’is house with Cummins, but left him before reaching there in order to get a hand car. I saw Cummins enter O’Hea’s house. A half hour later I met Cummins coining from O’Hea’s house with a British flag and a flfffc of truce. L had been unable to get a handcar so Cummins said be would go on foot as It was getting late i and he did not want to make the trip Iri the dark. Cummins did not make any 1 complaint to me of coercion, then, or i later. On his return on the 90th, he war ( cordially received by Villa who em- ' braced him and thanked him for what he had done." The Mr. O’Hea mentioned by Mr. j Carothers, is Patrick O’Hea, recently up- j pointed to succeed Cunsrd-Cummlns as I British vice consul. Cummins had re signed but was acting as vice consul WHITE SLAVE CASE 01 TRIAL IN MADISON Vernon Coggins Being Tried at Hunts ville—Victim Government's Main Witness Huntsville, April 9.—Vernon Goggltis ol Whitwell, Tenn., is on trial in the United States court on charge of violating the white slave act. Miss Bthel Lane of Whitw’ell, Tenn.. was the government’s prniclpal witness. She testified that Cog gins enticed her from Whitwell to Bridge port and then to Chattanooga for an im moral purpose, having lodged at a hotel as man and wife. The case w’ent to tin jury tonight. Huntsville, April 9.— (Special.)—The jury tonight returned a verdict of not guilty. COURT DISMISSES MULHALL APPEAL FROM JUDGMENT New York, April 9.—The appeal of Mar tin M. Mulhall against the $5000 judgment awarded Richard Barry, playwright, for half the money which the one time lobby ist reecived for correspondence sold through Barry was dismissed today by the appellate division of the supreme court. As a lobbyist Mulhall was in the em ploy of the National Association of Manu facturers and the correspondence Barry sol i for hlin included letters exchanged between public officials and officers of tho association. Mulhall received $10,000 for the Information and Barry won a suit aguinst him, the playwilght alleging the lobbyist agreedt o give him half the money. Mulhall refused to live up to such an agreement, Barry set forth in the supreme court. Delay Russian Treaty Washington, April 9.—Negotiations of a new commercial treaty with Russia will not be begun, according to Pres ident Wilson, until a new ambassador is appointed. The President today said that he still was undecided about the ambassadorship and was considering three men. He declined to say who the three men were. Stadium Accepted Princeton, N. J., April 9.—The Pal mer memorial stadium was officially accepted by the boar dof trustees of Princeton university today. The sta dium W’ill seat about 41,000 persons. The estimated cost is $300,000, to be given by Kdgar Palmer, ’03, of Rye, N. Y. Correct From Judge. Tessie Footlight—Men are just like bells, anyway. Cattle Calcium—Yes; you’ve alw’ays got to pull their legs to get the rings out of them. t EBEN S. DM DIES IN GREENVILLE, S.C. Former Governor of Massa chusetts Succumbs to Paralysis Greenville, S. C., April 3—Eben 8. Draper, former governor of Massachu letti, died here late today. Mr. Draper was stricken with paralysis here Tues iay. He was 65 years old and a prom inent manufacturer of textile ma chinery in New England. The condition of Mr. Draper was se ious from the time of the attack and » large corps of physicians were in at tendance. The patient’s entire left side was affected by the paralytic stroke. In addition to physicians here and from Atlanta, who were called on the case, two doctors from Boston were sum moned yesterday. Mr. Draper was stricken at a local hotel a few hours after his arrival. He was on his way home from a trip to Florida and Cuba. As soon as his con dition was noted by the physicians, telegrams were sent to members of his family in Massachusetts, summoning them to his bedside. They arrived here today. The dead man was prominent in both the industrial and political life of Mas sachusetts. Previous to his election ns governor of Massachusetts in 1909 lie sorved as lieutenant governor from 1906 to 1908. He was governor of the state from 1909 to 1911. Mr. Draper was fleeted as a republican to both posi tions. Chosen Chairman In 1892 he was chosen chairman of the republican state committee of Mas sachusetts and in 1896 he was chair man of the republican state delegation from Massachusetts to the party's na tional convention. He took a prominent part In the deliberations of that con vention and assisted In obtaining the party’s declaration in favor of the gold standard on the currency question. When the Spanish-American war was declared in 1898, Mr. Draper, then pres ident of the Massachusetts Volunteers’ Aid association, took a prominent part in the raising of $1100,000 which was raised to fit out the hospital ship Bay State. For several years Mr. Draper had been prominently connected with the Draper company, manufacturers of tex tile machinery. His home throughout his life was at Hopedaio, Mass., where he was born. His technical training was obtained at the Massachusetts In stitute of Technology. Mr. Draper was not only connected with the textile Industry, but was in terested in the Milford National bank and had connections with various civic and charitable institutions. The body will be taken to the Draper home at Hopedale, Mass., for burial. The funeral party will leave in n spe cial car on the Southern railway to morrow afternoon. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon. WEALTHY BUSINESS MAN INDICTED Fort Wayne, lnd.. April 9.—Anthony B. Trentman. a wealthy Fort Wayn-1 and Chicago business man, who shot and killed Howard Bruce, a negro hotel waiter because the waiter was indifferent to his request for his overcoat, was Indicted for first degree murder by a special grand Jury here today. Trentman Is m Jail In default of $10,000 ball. Trentman s relatives claim he. has been snowing signs of lnsantity for more than two years, and It is said they W'tll sc.»k to show ina*. they had planned to have him removed tc an asylum. May Begin Inquest Tomorrow According to Coroner Charles L. Spain, it Is possible that the Inquest Into the killing of Leon H. Thomas will be started tomorrow' morning. This will be done, stntes tho coroner. If service on all the witnesses wanted can be had by deputy sheri ffs. -* Greece Buys Cruiser London, April 9.—An Athens dispatch says it is learned from a reliable source that tho Greek government has pur chased for $1,100,000 a small cruiser built in an American shipyard tor China. Attempt of Federate to Se cure Brown Players Is Thwarted St. Iritis, April 9.—The first battle In an openly avowed war between organized baseball In this city and the Federal league was staged here today and the younger league retired with an American league pitcher added to its ranks and an American longue catcher, said to be on his way to join the Federal*. Karl Hamilton, left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Americans, went to Kansas City today in company with George Sto vall. manager of the Kansas City Federal team, which Hamilton announced he had Joined. Tonight Clem Clemons, catcher for the St. Louis Americans, announced he would depart for Chicago on It late train, but he neither would admit not* deny publish ed rumors that he had Joined the Federal Chicago team. Humors that at least half a dozen other St. Louis major league players had been considering Federal league offers, or wore soliciting such offers were rife tonight. The battle was precipitated last night by the auddcfS arrival In this city of Stovall. C. C. Madison, attorney for the Kansas City Federate, and a third man whoso Identity was not learning but who was said to represent the Chicago Federate. 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